The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond

David Worthington

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64090-7_1

The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond

David Worthington

Centre for History

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This chapter both outlines the foundations of the New Coastal History and scopes out new routes within this cross-disciplinary space. It brings in insular and non-insular research as well as historiographical evidence before sharpening the focus to adjacent, proximate coasts - the pasts of a range of straits, sounds, channels, gulfs, bays, estuaries, firths and fjords being covered - highlighting that such environments have been ‘hubs’ as well as ‘chokepoints’. The next section explores how waterborne communications have knitted together such communities as much as lack of landed contiguity has separated them. The final section outlines the volume’s genesis on a littoral in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and introduces the contributions that follow.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Introducing the New Coastal History:
Subtitle of host publication	Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond
Editors	David Worthington
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	3-30
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319640907
ISBN (Print)	9783319640891
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64090-7_1
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017

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Introducing the New Coastal History: : Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond. ed. / David Worthington. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 3-30.

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